BUREAUCRACY: The Country Boy

"The most astounding case of
shortsightedness that we have encountered," Texas' Senator Lyndon
Johnson called it. Johnson, who heads a watchdog Senate subcommittee in
this war similar to one that Senator Harry Truman headed in World War
II, was talking about the case of the parallax computers.

One day the War Assets Administration announced that it was stuck with a
batch of war surplus aircraft computers and would sell them to the
highest bidder. A Texas farmer, who is a former naval officer and likes
to shop around for bargains in surplus...